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If the guy is so gracious and forgiving, why would he be upset by me substituting his middle name with slang for "sex"?

Exactly. My rule of thumb is "don't add validation until there is absolutely no better way and you absolutely must restrict this input."

Exciting. I'd love to see AppImage [0] builds of applications produced with this library.

[0] https://appimage.org/

You had me until vi.

What about "de-DoubleClicking" Google, iow, separating the ad business from the rest of Google/Alphabet? I'm not sure how that would work, but IMO what reduces the quality of Google products and noticeably makes them worse for consumers is that the products either improve ad dollars or they get cut/receive no funding.

I recently became aware of LibreWolf (https://librewolf.net/installation/linux/), going to see how it works. So far I like that I can install it via AppImage!

I do not understand why this was flagged, this research gives important information on LLM's that contrasts with the marketing fluff we're seeing out of big tech.

It can, but you do need to decide which dimension(s) constitute a breaking change. IMO, the UI replaces the API as the main dimension in user facing applications, so if functionality is removed from the UI, or significantly altered, then that constitutes a breaking change.

They do not "find" bugs in the way that exploratory testing or user operation might (or even in the way that broader integration tests might), that is they don't find bugs that are not in the known problem space. But they are very good at proving a method works correctly and covers the known execution permutations.

> Modelling the happy path is great for refactoring - even a necessity, but doesn’t help with finding bugs.

This is a common misconception (one that I also initially held). Unit tests aren't meant to find bugs, they're meant to protect against regressions, and in doing so, act as a documentation of how a component is supposed to behave in response to different input.

The two most popular clients, Gmail and Outlook, are ranked at 25 and 41 (the bottom) respectively.

One can't help but wonder (or personally, hope) if this move sour investors enough on Elon...

Is this satire?

This seems more like a gap in the windows API than in the programming languages.

In my experience, xfinity will often do speed increases and market them, but leave me on a "grandfathered" plan, which leaves me with the same speed as before, and usually some creeping "service fees". Eventually, as I get annoyed with the increasing service fees, I login and look at their new plans and end up enjoying a nice speed increase and a lower monthly bill.

Scary if true!

Agreed. Outlook native gets extremely confused when the desktop resolution/scaling changes. It also uses as an old version of IE/Trident (?!) to render HTML e-mails, which is very painful to work with when trying to build rich e-mail notifications.

Not only that, one climbed onto and then into the cockpit to secure the pilot.

> ...a seaman of the Naval Reserve named Rath climbed up the inside of the mast until he reached the machine, and then crawled out to the plane to hold the pilot until help came.

I fully agree. If local AI takes traction, then we actually have a unique opportunity to take away some of that massive profiling, as some of what you use search engines for today can be done by AI. This may be why there's some fear-mongering around truly open-source AI and such by the big ones.

I've been slowly expanding my HTPC/media server into a gaming server and box for running LLMs (and possibly diffusion models?) locally for playing around with. I think it's becoming clear that the future of LLM's will be local!

My box has a Gigabyte B450M, Ryzen 2700X, 32GB RAM, Radeon 6700XT (for gaming/streaming to steam link on Linux), and an "old" Geforce GTX 1650 with a paltry 6GB of RAM for running models on. Currently it works nicely with smaller models on ollama :) and it's been fun to get it set up. Obviously, now that the software is running I could easily swap in a more modern NVidia card with little hassle!

I've also been eyeing the b450 steel legend as a more capable board for expansion than the Gigabyte board, this article gives me some confidence that it is a solid board.

It's hard to know, but since it's virtual, we know with certainty that there's no guarantee of any sort of "air" between the object locked data. Much less the total severance of any kind of plugged in network that "air gapped" implies.

> Object Lock serves as a digital vault, making data immutable for a specified period. It creates a virtual air gap...

"Virtual" and "air gap" is quite frankly an oxymoron. The two concepts are just at odds with one another. This article gives me misgivings about Backblaze as well.

I think there's maybe a little too much credit being given to JCD here, this quote:

> Don't be left out. There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this technology.

Is about as generic of a "wooo new tech keep reading to maybe learn more one day" as I have ever seen. That type of quote wouldn't be out of place on a hyperloop article.

Good, fast, cheap. Choose two.

Ethics are tricky!

While the Germany PDF actually scrolls pretty quickly at 100% zoom (makes one realize just how much text is read in a day), the Universe one is pretty fun, Firefox's PDF reader at 100% zoom obviously doesn't budge the scrollbar at all.

AI is at rest almost all of the time. When we're "awake", we're constantly learning, observing our environment, making decisions based off those observations, and storing relevant information. The "AI" of today only learns at specified times, otherwise the energy cost required would be prohibitive.

That's what a "mixture of experts" has always implied to me - a vast amount of overfitting.

Ideally a new instance of the application is installed for each user. This also provides better isolation if one user upgrades/removes/breaks their application instance. I, for one, have really come around to the AppImage model [0] in the last couple of years.

[0] https://appimage.org/

40% of those tools are majority controlled by Microsoft...